Noun
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
Source: Webster's dictionaryPostmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a singular truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths. Miguel Syjuco
Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art. Clement Greenberg
A novelist who ranks with Proust, Kafka, Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism. Italo Svevo
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition. Roger Scruton
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. Will Self
Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. Arthur Erickson